Nothing to say

Life is really good right now. It’s funny, too, I have hardly been on the internet. It’s really been about a week, and I haven’t done much more than check my main gmail account. I haven’t caught up on your blog. I haven’t caught up on mine. I haven’t checked flickr or any of the other sites I go to. I haven’t read comics. I did got to Homestar Runner. I think B (GF’s niece) was surprised that I like it so much. It’s been nice, really. I mean, I waste a lot of time on the web, honestly. I don’t want to do that any more. I’d rather do other things. Like studying SQL.

Now is a good time to segue to the new job, but I want to talk about B. One of GF’s nieces visited for a week. She left on tuesday, the 25th (my bday). She hung out with GF a lot, the three of us hung out together a lot, and we even got to hang out just the two of us for a while. She’s a very cool young lady. Funny as heck, too. I had a lot of fun in the last week.

While she was here, I was offered a job. It was a verbal offer, so I started making preparations to leave my current job (particularly, burning my PTO before I quit and making sure my recurring reports are all fully documented and automated), but didn’t formally submit my resignation. I’m so excited for the new position, and am happy to tell you about it, now that I’ve gotten the formal written offer. I will be the Senior Data Analyst for a company that provides Medicare services in south Florida. The business is locally owned, and appeals to me for that reason alone. Better yet, I’m going to be working for a friend who used to be my coworker. He was hired by this new company several months ago, and has just been given a new department that he’ll be heading up. He specifically saught me out. Today, when I met him to turn in some paperwork, he told me something funny and flattering. See, he’s been looking out for me for a while now, and clued me in to another analyst position that had opened within the company. I interviewed for it, but never heard back. The guy had said he was looking for someone with more SQL and Crystal Reports experience, so I wasn’t really surprised. Today, my friend had actually met with this guy and told him about my coming aboard. The guy says, “You asshole” to him. Ok, it was in jest, so no big deal. Apparently, he really wanted to hire me, but the position was frozen before he could fill it. I can only imagine he was hoping to get back to me when it opened back up. Who knew I could be in such high demand? So the new position pays great, has really nice benefits, and is more than a couple steps up from where I’m at now. On top of all that, I really hate the company that bought the one I currently work for, so I’m thrilled to get out of there.

My boss was awesome enough to work with me to help me get my vacation time before I officially quit, so tomorrow will be the last day of my week off. I’m heading back in Friday to take care of things, then I’ll work through next week, and next Friday will be my last day there. The following monday, the 8th, I start the new job. It’s also the first day of classes at my college. I’m taking English and Spanish once I get the classes scheduled, and I plan to go do that tomorrow. The week off has been really cool. I got to spend a good portion of a day with B. We went to Fairchild and checked out the Chihuly exhibit. It was gorgeous. I want to go back and see it again before the thing comes down. In a way, I wish I’d taken a week off between the jobs, but if I did that, the excitement might kill me. :) I’m stoked about the work that will go into putting the new dept together, and really excited to get started on it.

I’m starting to feel a bit scattered. Weird that typing like this usually helps me sort things out. Right now, though, I just have too much energy. I want to go do something.

Being 30 is ok. For my birthday, GF took me to the Murakami Museum and Japanese Gardens. Very, very cool. Dinner was at a place called Sublime. It’s a vegetarian restaurant in Broward County. I didn’t realize it was as ritzy as it turned out to be, but the prices were surprisingly reasonable. It was an absolutely excellent meal, and they have the best Mojito I’ve ever had.

Alright, I’m out. Thanks for checking in.